Oaks Bluff

Oaks Bluff (48˚45'00" 123˚16'00" W side of N Pender I, Gulf Is). The extreme S end of N Pender I was fenced off about 1900 to raise sheep, and this 250-ha range was known as The Oaks. The name, of course, came from the abundant Garry oaks (Quercus garryana) in the area. Until 1911, when the property was sold, the Hamilton and Brackett families conducted what they called “sheep runs” there, driving the half-wild animals into corrals at Wallace Point for shearing and for separating out the...

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